Crypto-Hijack:Crypto-Miners Hijack Tesla's Computers

Elon Musk might have been able to send his
personal Tesla car to space but he sure wasn’t able to stop crypto currency
miners from hijacking his computers for crypto-mining.

Summary:

·Tesla, the electric car manufacturer
has been the lasts victim of crypto-miners who are out to jack systems for
cryptomining.

·The infiltrated system is Tesla’s Kubernetes
console (a system for containerized apps that was originally designed by
Google.

·The system was not password protected

·The CSI Researchers who detected the evasion noticed that
usual methods were not used by the hackers to hijack the system.

·The hackers did not use a public mining pool but instead
installed their own mining pool software and configured the malicious script to
connect to an unlisted endpoint.

·They also hid the true IP Address behind a cloud flare which
is a free content delivery network (CDN) service, which allows them to use a
new IP Address on demand.

·This made detection of the activity even more challenging.

· The mining software was configured to listen on a
non-standard port which makes it hard to detect the activity based on port
traffic,

·Also interesting is the fact that the dashboard of the
Kubernetes did not indicate that the CPU Usage was high, which may indicate
that the hackers configured the mining software to keep the CPU Usage low to
avoid detection.

·The CSI team immediately reported the incident to Tesla and
it was immediately rectified.

So, Elon can rest easy
for now knowing that his computers’ resources are not being used for
cryptocurrency mining.

What do you think about
the incident? What protection do you think Individuals and Companies can get to
protect their systems from unauthorized crypto-mining?

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